This paper describes the current version of state-event transformation system to transform story lines and story worlds each other using a knowledge base and a conceptual dictionary. Moreover, we extend the basic framework to a circulative generation mechanism with a simple mutation function. Through the preliminary performance checks, we confirmed that the transformation of story worlds and st...

This study investigated the oral personal narrative production in 60 Cantonesespeaking children between 6 and 9 years of age. Three language measures, namely Total Personal Narrative Score, Macrostructure Score and Microstructure, were derived from three personal narratives produced by each participant after listening to the sample stories. The participants also completed the Cantonese Grammar ...

Narrative generation enables a range of opportunities for understanding the creative act of storytelling. Prior approaches have mostly converged on a pipeline model, wherein story structure is generated as a precursor to discourse structure, mapping individual story events to discourse elements. This model, however, unnecessarily limits narrative possibilities, which most prior work avoids by i...

Based on the testimony of others, children learn about a variety of figures that they never meet. We ask when and how they are able to differentiate between the historical figures that they learn about (e.g., Abraham Lincoln) and fantasy characters (e.g., Harry Potter). Experiment 1 showed that both younger (3- and 4-year-olds) and older children (5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds) understand the status ...

Every patient with suspected or confirmed cancer requires accurate diagnosis and staging to guide treatment planning and to make informed patient care decisions. Physicians and surgeons have traditionally used narrative writing to report findings from investigative tests, surgical procedures and examination of tumour specimens. However, research has demonstrated that narrative reporting does no...

RPG’s (Role Playing Games) and improvisational theatre have some obvious similarities. Both require the participants to work together in real-time to construct dynamic narrative elements. Seeing communication in terms of ongoing narrative contracts is a well-accepted principle of improvisational theatre (Johnstone 1981). The recipient of an offered narrative element can accept the offer, block ...

This paper presents the view that narrative may be viewed as a framework for situating interaction (or the distribution of knowledge) in a particular context. The process of constructing this context explicates both interaction and knowledge exchange. Narrative techniques can therefore be placed within a framework for providing contextualization in agents to enhance user interactions, and this,...

political and social isolation of women in pre-islamic period and their blurred role in social and political life changed with the advent of islam. however, in the era of the caliphs, under the influence of jewish and christian cultural elements and the revival of certain pre-islamic arabian traditions, the page was turned and the situation is well reflected in historical texts and traditions. ...